Vinegar, lots and lots of vinegar.
Many years ago, when I was a teenage prodigy, I was studying chemistry in school. I didn't particularly enjoy the subject, but there was no internet back then and it seemed the simplest way to learn how to blow things up.
As part of the Leaving Cert curriculum we wasted a huge amount of time doing titrations. Several of these involved using precise amounts of vinegar.
In order to measure this we used a suction pipette, a glass tube with a bulge in the middle. You would lower your face over a bowl of vinegar, place one end of the tube in your mouth, and suck.
This of course resulted in the inhalation of vinegar fumes, and occassionaly a mouthful of the stuff.
That much vinegar on a regular basis resulted in me hating the stuff for about a decade. I've grown to like it again, but for years even the slightest hint of a vinegar smell would make me retch.
You'd all be a lot more impressed if I claimed this had happened in Japan.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 31 May 2011, 8:41, Reply)